September 22, 2009 / Brooklyn news / Police Blotter / Park Slope

Almost no crime last week in the Slope!

By Gersh Kuntzman

The Brooklyn Paper

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Bike bandit

A thief snatched the bag right off the back of a bicycle even as its owner was riding it on Sept. 15.

The 57-year-old woman told cops that she was on Sixth Avenue between Berkeley Place and Union Street at around 2 pm when a man drove up in a black car, took the bag and drove off.

She lost her iPod, her Pratt Institute ID and a book fittingly titled, “Inquiry Questions.”

De-tooled

A worker at a construction job inside a Third Street apartment returned after his weekend respite to find that $2,600 in tools had been taken.

The hardhat told cops that he left the jobsite on Sept. 11 at 4:30 pm and returned on Sept. 14 at 7:30 am to discover a broken window and drills, saws, hammers and nail guns gone from the apartment, which is between Fifth and Sixth avenues.

Mr. Clean

A thief moved swiftly to take a woman’s wallet from a Sixth Avenue Laundromat on Sept. 17.

The laundry washer told cops that she put her Coach wallet down for just “a couple of seconds” at around 12:15 pm, but that was long enough for the thief to make his move.

He got the wallet, various credit cards, $20 and, most important, the victim’s Park Slope Food Co-op member card in the heist from the washomat, which is between 10th and 11th streets.

Car-ried away

As usual, the main crime last week in Park Slope involved cars. Here’s a round-up:

• A thief stole a woman’s car from in front of the 14th Street repair shop where she had brought it the day earlier. The victim told cops that she’d dropped off the 1999 Nissan Maxima at around 6:30 pm on Sept. 17, but an employee told police that he later parked it — legally — on 14th Street between Third and Fourth avenues. When he returned to it the next morning, it was gone.

• A 14th Street man’s extremely valuable 1992 Honda that was stolen sometime over the summer was finally logged as a crime when the car was discovered on Sept. 17 in East New York “stripped clean,” according to the police report.

• A thief ripped off a food truck driver who had parked his van in front of Steve’s C-Town on Sept. 15. The driver told cops that while he was unloading the truck, a thief broke in and stole $1,420.

• A man shopping in the Staples office supply store on Fourth Avenue near Third Street on Sept. 16 returned to his car to find the window smashed and his laptop gone. The man said he was only in the store for about five minutes at around 2:45 pm.

— Gersh Kuntzman

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